Politically active nonprofit groups such as Crossroads GPS and the League of Conservation Voters could see their influence on campaigns dramatically curbed under a proposed rule announced Tuesday by the Treasury Department and Internal Revenue Service. The new guidance would amend...

A Republican congressman has filed a bill to repeal the 16th Amendment, which allows the federal government the authority to collect an income tax. Oklahoma Republican Rep. Jim Bridenstine wants to repeal the amendment in order to...

U.S. agencies collected and shared the personal information of thousands of Americans in an attempt to root out untrustworthy federal workers that ended up scrutinizing people who had no direct ties to the U.S. government and simply...

More than 8,000 federal workers and contractors with security clearances owe $85 million in unpaid taxes to the IRS, according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO). The GAO warned that individuals who have significant debt and access...

The scandal-plagued Internal Revenue Service (IRS) sent $4.2 billion in child tax-credit checks to illegal immigrants the year the agency began targeting conservative groups, according to a new report from Watchdog.Org. The IRS sent illegal immigrant families $1,000 checks...

The federal government’s decision to pay out billions of dollars in tax credits to illegal immigrants likely was made by midlevel bureaucrats and has never received full congressional scrutiny, according to a study that the Center for Immigration...

A top Internal Revenue Service official appears to have sent confidential taxpayer information to White House officials and counseled the executive staff on legal challenges from groups who claimed Obamacare infringed on their religious liberties, emails released...

At 1 A.M. Tuesday, just an hour after the budget standoff forced the partial shutdown of the federal government , Forbes contributor Kelly Phillips Erb (aka Taxgirl) delivered two pieces of bad news to taxpayers: you still...